NCSA Releases Beta of Milky Way Galaxy

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 25, 2002 @12:44PM from the very-funny-guys-now-release-my-pants dept.

TellarHK writes: "One of the coolest attractions in New York City, the Hayden Planetarium is working with NCSA to produce a navigable, flexible, and soon to be open sourced representation of the Milky Way Galaxy. Available at this link the Partiview Visualization Software tool is a particle engine using OpenGL to display the galaxy on your Linux or Windows PC. A Mac OS port (presumably for OS X) is also planned. At .5 status, the program already has a very high neat factor and runs acceptably well on last month's hardware."

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DAMN YOU RICHARD SPECK!! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-26 06:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Are you wearing those blue panties today, Speck?"

"Yes"

"Can we see them?"

"Sure!"

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